Month: July 2010

A man from the Old Country went to a diner every day for lunch. He always ordered the soup of the day. One day the manager asked him how he liked his meal. The old man replied, “It was good, but you could give a little more bread.”

So the next day the manager told the waitress to give him four slices of bread. “How was your meal, sir?” the manager asked. “It was good, but you could give a little more bread,” came the reply.

So the next day the manager told the waitress to give him eight slices of bread. “How was your meal today, sir?” the manager asked. “It was good, but you could give maybe a little more bread,” came the reply.

So…the next day the manager told the waitress to give him a whole loaf of bread with his soup. “How was your meal, sir?” the manager asked, when he came to hand him the bill. “It was good, but you could give maybe a little more bread,” came the reply once again.

The manager was obsessed with seeing this customer say that he is satisfied with his meal, so he went to the bakery, and ordered a six-foot-long loaf of bread. When the man came in as usual the next day, the waitress and the manager cut the loaf in half, buttered the entire length of each half, and laid it out along the counter, right next to his bowl of soup. The old man sat down, and devoured his bowl of soup, and both halves of the six-foot-long loaf of bread.

The manager now thinks he will get the answer he is looking for, and when the old man came up to pay for his meal, the manager asked in the usual way, “How was your meal TODAY, sir?”

The old man replied, “It was good, as usual, but why you are back to giving only two slices bread!”

Like many people I upgraded my iPod Touch to iOS4… In general it works well and the new folders feature is brilliant… I am not so keen on the multitasking and that isn’t Apple’s fault, I have an Android phone and I don’t like the multitasking on that either… The most used apps on my phone and my iPod Touch are their task managers to kill off the running apps… Anyway I digress…

Since my iPod Touch has the same processor as the iPhone 3GS, iOS 4 is quite quick and I don’t see any lags or delays that older iPod Touch users can see… But one thing that was bad was the battery life… I say “was” as I have now found a solution!

During the first night after my iPod Touch had iOS 4 installed, the battery went flat while it was in “sleep” mode. The next night I made sure that there were no back ground tasks running, but again the same thing. In the end I stumbled upon using airplane mode to silence the network activity and wow, the battery didn’t go flat. Now I could use it as an iPod and a games device without the battery going flat, but it was pain to have to keep flipping in and out of airplane mode all the time.

Finally I came across some instructions which finally tamed by iPod Touch and let me leave airplane mode off without worrying about my battery.

The trick is to make sure that there is no background network access. To do this you need to turn off Notifications, Fetch New Data (for email) and New Invitation Alerts (for Calendars):

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I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals." Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne. - Revelation 5 (NIV)